The Alternative key on a keyboard. To initiate the Access Key, type the allocated number/character while holding down the ALT key.
Some games allow you to have more than one character (I have two). If you do, you refer to your other characters as your alts, as in alter egos or alternates.
A key that, when used in combination with a mnemonic, opens a menu corresponding to a name on the menu bar. On a keyboard, the key may be ALT, Meta, or Extend char.
(abv.) Short for 'Alternate' or 'Alternate Character', this term is used to describe a character under a person's control that is not one of their primary existances.
A player's 'alternate' character or characters that they play when they are 'resting' their 'main' character or want to play something different. Alts are often used to farm and craft to help support the 'main'.
1. A top-level category of "alternative" USENET newsgroups. These unmoderated newsgroups can be started by anyone with the time, equipment, and expertise. The alt hierarchy covers perhaps the widest variety of topics ranging from the informative to the bizarre, and from the politically radical to the explicitly sexual. 2. The Alt key on the keyboard of IBM PC compatibles, typically used in conjunction with other keys.
The Alt key doesn't do anything by itself. But if you hold it down while pressing another key, the effect of that key may be different from usual. Exactly what will happen will depend on what program is running at the time.
1. There is an Alt key found on a computer keyboard. The Alt key functions much like a third Ctrl/Shift key in that it alters the value of other characters...
Alt is the name of a modifier bit which a keyboard input character may have. To make a character Alt, type it while holding down the ALT key. Such characters are given names that start with Alt- (usually written for short). (Note that many terminals have a key labeled ALT which is really a META key.) See section Alt.
An abbreviation for the alternate key found on computer keyboards.
Alternate Character. Alternate Characters are other characters played by a person, usually lower level and not as progressed as their main.
A character on your account other than your main character.
The ALTernate key on the keyboard, used to access alternate characters or modify mouse actions. You can move a polygon after selecting it, for example, by holding down the Left Mouse Button and the ALT key simultaneously.
Short for alternate - an alt is a character other than your main.
Alternate character. Often players have a known "main" character that usually corresponds with their member/forum name, additional characters are referred to as "alts".